Dr. Giardiello has a special interest in colon cancer, polyps and colon cancer risk assessment. His research interests also include the study of cancer and cancer chemoprevention in the gastrointestinal tract, which has involved the investigation of the genetic basis of familial colorectal cancer and the use of genetic testing in the hereditary forms of colorectal cancer.
Dr. Giardiello also studies the genotypic phenotypic correlations in the polyposis syndromes. His work has been published in a number of prestigious professional journals, such as Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Journal of Medical Genetics and Epigenetics.
Dr. Giardiello earned his medical degree at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, completed his internal medicine training at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and fellowship training in gastroenterology at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
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